'Something has to change': Ley’s leadership on the brink
Liberal MPs view a leadership challenge as inevitable. Finding the right time is another matter.
Since the Coalition’s extraordinary breakup last week, many Liberal MPs have viewed Sussan Ley’s demise as inevitable.
The conservative flank’s inability to coalesce around a single successor, with friction between Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor, may grant her more time.
Yet her colleagues view this prospect as a stay of execution, not a permanent reprieve.
“Clearly, something has to change,” one unaligned Liberal MP told Capital Brief on Tuesday.